COEUR d’ALENE — A carnival attraction was shut down Saturday after a girl received six stitches for a laceration she received while in a fun house at the North Idaho State Fair and Rodeo at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds.

The girl was treated and released from a Coeur d’Alene urgent care facility while state fair officials shut down the Firehouse, a fun house that is entered using a steel staircase and exited via a slide.

“The thing that is most important to us is safety,” fair manager Alexcia Jordan said. “That’s our top priority and we’re happy (the girl) is home and recovering.”

Jordan said the girl, who was not named and whose age was not released, was injured Friday afternoon on the Firehouse carnival slide. Jordan did not know what caused the long scratch and the puncture wound on the girl’s right side near her rib cage which required stitches.

The child was checked by Kootenai Fire and Rescue personnel at an aid station before being taken to the urgent care office. Medics reported the incident to fair management.

The Firehouse was temporarily closed Friday, but reopened after a brief inspection. It was permanently shut down Saturday, Jordan said.

Jordan said state inspectors and a fire marshal check the electronics and make sure rides align with fire safety codes, but the carnival, Cody, Wyo.-based North Star Amusements, hires its own inspectors to check the rides for safety concerns.

The carnival — which is a separate entity and works under contract — had its inspector check the Firehouse, and the ride was deemed safe following the incident, but Jordan said she overrode the decision and called for shutting down the ride.

“They felt it was OK to open it back up,” she said. “In my contract with them, I have the right to shut it down, and I did that.”

Riley Cooke, who manages North Star, said he was called to the Firehouse when the incident occurred and spoke with the parents. He and the girl’s father inspected the slide, but couldn’t find what caused the laceration.

“We’ve run thousands of kids through it,” Cooke said. “We always have a safety officer at the top of the slide to make sure only one child goes down the slide at a time.”

His employees go through hours of safety and appearance training and thoroughly check the rides every day, he said.

“We still don’t know what happened,” he said.

Efforts to contact the child’s mother, Candace Jones, were unsuccessful. In a Facebook post, however, Jones said her daughter was on the slide when the right side of her body scraped against a bolt, which left a long scar and punctured the skin on her ribcage. The child bled through her shirt and left a blood smear on the slide, which, Jones said, was washed off by carnival employees.

Jones wrote in the Facebook post that she rushed her daughter to a care facility where the girl received six stitches.

Jordan said the carnival rides are inspected daily following a national standard.

“Each day safety inspections are made by North Star Amusements in accordance with the National Association of Amusement Ride Safety Officials (NAARSO) standards,” according to a fair press release. “We continue to gather information on the incident.”

A broken carnival ride at the Gallatin County Fair in Bozeman, Mont. operated by North Star Amusements sent a young girl to the hospital in 2014 with a broken pelvic bone, according to newspaper reports. But the Friday incident in Coeur d’Alene, wasn’t caused by a malfunction.

“There was nothing broken, no operator error, no machine failure, it was just a freak accident, there’s no other way to explain it,” Cooke said.

He said an incident report was filed in the case and the carnival’s insurance company will handle the case from here forward. In the meantime, the ride will not open for the rest of its time at the fair, which concludes today.